Terms and Conditions of Use

This  website is owned and operated by the Mid-Atlantic Environmental Law Center (“the Center”). Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using our site. By using this site, you automatically agree to all of these terms of use. The Center may revise these terms from time to time. If you continue to use our site after we post changes to these terms and conditions, it will mean that you accept those changes.

Content Does Not Constitute Legal Advice

Most of the Center’s work concerns matters of a legal nature.  However, the content on this site is provided solely for educational and promotional purposes, and may under no circumstances be construed as providing legal advice.  USERS OF THIS SITE ARE ADVISED THAT NO MATERIAL ON THE CENTER’S SITE CONSTITUTES LEGAL ADVICE, MEDICAL ADVICE OR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OF ANY KIND, AND MAY NOT BE RELIED ON AS SUCH.

No Warranties

The materials on this site are provided solely for educational and promotional purposes. Your use and browsing of this site is at your own risk. The materials could include technical inaccuracies or other errors. They are provided to you "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Center does not warrant that the functions contained in maelc.org materials will be uninterrupted or error-free.  Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL MID-ATLANTIC ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER OR ITS AFFILIATES, GOVERNING BOARD, OFFICERS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, PARTNERS OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, BUSINESS, DATA OR PROFITS, LITIGATION AND THE LIKE, WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE LIMITATIONS SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THESE TERMS OF USE AND THE SITE WOULD NOT BE PROVIDED TO YOU ABSENT SUCH LIMITATIONS.

In no event shall the Center’s total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action, including but not limited to negligence, arising out of our in connection with your use of this site, exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.  If your jurisdiction does not allow the foregoing limitations of liability, the foregoing limitations may not apply to you.

General Terms

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and the Center and govern your use of the Site, superseding any prior agreements between you and the Center regarding the Site (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of these Terms).

These Terms and the resolution of any dispute related to these Terms or the Site shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

The Center's failure to insist upon strict enforcement of any provision of these Terms shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right.

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these Terms will be enforced in accordance with their terms.

The section headings in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.

Regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, you hereby waive your right to bring any claim against the Center more than 1 year after such claim first arose.

Arbitration

Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms will be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim will be arbitrated on an individual basis, and will not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. You consent to the arbitration being conducted in the county of New Castle, Delaware. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or the Center may seek any interim or preliminary equitable relief from a court of competent jurisdiction in the county of New Castle, Delaware, necessary to protect the rights or property of you or the Center pending the completion of arbitration.